EP153 - Pre-Thanksgiving Industry News and Listener Questions Thanksgiving road trips with Jason & Scot have become a tradition in the digital shopper marketing industry.  Here is an hour of new and listener questions, to get you ready for the Turkey-5 holiday! Spiffy announces connected car initiative.  The first connected car feature grants limited access to vehicles through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) connected car capabilities. Eliminating the step of handing off keys prior to a service makes Spiffy's on-demand services even easier for customers. Amazon News HQ2/3 discussion Amazon offers free shipping w/o Prime (how will Target/Walmart respond) Apple establishes an official presence on Amazon Other News 11.11 Recap Walmart earnings (e-com up 43%) Walmart CEO Doug McMillon on Tim Ferris podcast New store concepts dominated by mobile experiences 7Fresh (JD Grocery) New Nike NY Store "House of Innovation 000" 7-11 scan and go Sams Club Now Amazon Go / 4-Star / Books Listener Questions Sri Rajagopalan Is the Amazon business in consumables really growing? Why are we not embracing Alibaba in the USA? Anonymous Anker rose to be a powerhouse of an Amazon business. Can you analyze their changes to highlight the overall marketplace transition to differentiated product development? Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 153 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, November 18, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 153 being recorded on Sunday November 18th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek, and as usual I'm here with your co-host. Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. Tonight we are sitting here on the cusp of Thanksgiving which is the official kickoff of holiday 18 we got some great guests on as we get into the thick of that but we thought we'd take this kind of opportunity here before at everything hits to go over some industry news and we I had some listeners that were really dying to ask some questions so we have some listener questions and we have hopefully if our sound engineer is doing his job we should have this out before you do your travel for Thanksgiving so hopefully this gives you something to you get the folks in the car asleep so that you can pick about some e-commerce and get really super hungry as you ride to that, great turkey dinner that you're going to enjoy. Jason: [1:34] That's a lot of pressure you just put on the audio engineer thanks a lot. Scot: [1:38] Well we have a we have a big team and I'm confident they can they can get it done. Before we dig into news and Lester questions Jason you were at something to deal with a bonfire so tell me about this big block party with you. Jason: [1:55] Sorry I did not get to light anything on fire. Loyal listeners will have heard of last week show where we talked a little bit about some joint research that my employer poop assisted with salesforce.com and so we did this. Speak study called The Shopper first study and you can listen to episode 152 if you want to learn more about the study but one of the things we we've done is leverage pieces of that study in various social events around the country so one of these we called the retail retail bonfire was in Manhattan a couple weeks ago we had three or four hundred clients in. To the Dream Hotel put on a cool event and shared some of the research but I also got to, talk a little bit about one of my favorite topics which is personalization and I I got to share this story that I enjoy sharing that I call hashtag United you don't know me and it's essentiall